Most types of boxwood shrubs are cultivars of either Buxus sempervirens, also known as common or American boxwood, or Buxus microphylla, better known as Japanese boxwood. Other boxwood varieties ...

New to my garden this past summer is a wonderful evergreen shrub, Gaultheria procumbens “Very Berry” Wintergreen. The genus, Gaultheria was first named in 1783 to honor a Canadian physician ...

We have a variegated boxwood shrub that is starting to revert back to solid green. Most of the shrub has yellow and green striped leaves that we really like.

Shiny broad leaf evergreens such as boxwood, camellia, rhododendron, laurel, nandina, holly, mahonia and aucuba all look great in the winter garden. Here mahonia is shown. (Photo | Lorraine Kiefer ...

Since the lily of the valley is a ground cover crop, it only sprouts 10 inches high. So, it's ideal to border the shrub and add a layer of unique flowers that won't completely mask your boxwood hedge.

And then there is the dreaded boxwood blight disease, caused by calonectria pseudonaviculata, first seen in the U.S. in 2011. Infected plants display brown lesions on the leaves and dark cankers ...

Size: The rounded shrub grows to be 10 feet tall and 7 feet wide when mature. Care: Once established, wintergreen barberry is drought tolerant. It will respond well to pruning and shearing, and ...

Wintergreen, anyone? I don't mean chewing gum, flavoring or tooth powder. I mean do you know where the shrub grows? Encyclopedias say that it grows in almost all of the Northern Hemisphere. How ...

This small evergreen shrub's berries hang on through winter -- and they're edible, as well. ... Plant Chilean wintergreen . Updated: Nov. 04, 2010, 10:23 a.m.

Pontiac – Officials say a fungal disease that attacks boxwood shrubs has been confirmed in suburban Detroit. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development announced Tuesday that ...